Airsoft Gatlin Gun

gatlin gun

The Gatling gun is one of the best known early rapid-fire weapons and a forerunner of the modern machine gun. It is well known for its use by the Union forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s, which was the first time it was employed in combat.

airsoft

Airsoft is primarily a recreational activity with replica firearms that shoot plastic BBs that are often used for personal collection, gaming (similar to paintball), or professional training purposes (military simulations, a.k.a. MilSim, and police training exercises).

A modern combat sport in which participants eliminate their opponents by hitting them with spherical non-metallic pellets launched from a compressed-air gun

Airsoft refers to a class of replica air powered guns that originated from Japan (although the origins go back to the US in the 70s). The power levels are way below those of traditional airguns, but the guns are 1:1 scale copies of original pistols, rather than original designs.

airsoft gatlin gun – Mr. Gatling's

Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It

A Pulitzer Prize winner explores the role of the first machine gun in transforming America into a superpower

Although it was little used during the American Civil War—the time in which it was invented—the Gatling gun soon changed the nature of warfare and the course of world history. Discharging two hundred shots per minute with alarming accuracy, the world’s first machine gun became vitally important to protecting and expanding America’s overseas interests. Its inventor, Richard Gatling, was famous in his own time for creating and improving many industrial designs, from bicycles and steamship propellers to flush toilets. A man of great business and scientific acumen, Gatling actually proposed his gun as a way of saving lives, thinking it would decrease the size of armies and, therefore, make it easier to supply soldiers and reduce malnutrition deaths. The scientists who unleashed America’s atomic arsenal less than a century later would see it much the same way.

In Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel, Julia Keller offers a riveting account of the Gatling gun’s invention, its misunderstood creator, and its tremendous impact on American and world events. She also shows how the gun, in its combination of ingenuity, idealism, and destructive power, perfectly exemplified the paradox of America’s rise as a world superpower.

M9801 Gatlin Gun

The M9801 Gatling is the follower of the M8900 Gatling Gun… With a more comfortable grip positioning and by adding a Bi-, Tri-pod (Switchable) The rat of fire has been decreased to 30.000 rounds a minute but a bigger magazine capacity 1.000.000 rounds.
The magazine capacity is increased because the bullet size is reduced to 5.56x45mm
The Gatlin lost it’s ability to be fired from a standing position. But with the adjustable bi-, tri-pod it can be fired sitting down and lieing down. The weapon has a total weight of 30.5 kilograms. It’s equipped with a Acog sight to extend it’s maximum range making it effective as a long distance support weapon. It has the ability to fire semi automatic wich stops the spinning of the barrels and activates a special recoil system.. The GHT’s use this ability to provide sniper cover with an additional scope.. Altho this is rarely used.. Because it has one large malfuction… When it’s used the weapon jams every 20 shots when fireing Semi-Automatic….

Gatlin gun

Gatlin gun at the museo de armas in Buenos Aires Argentina, they have so many cool guns there!